Vietnam War Correspondents: Journalists in Conflict Part Two

[@snappers_antique_firearms]

I really enjoy your videos. keep up the great work

[@CarterOnConflict]

@@snappers_antique_firearms thank you so much. I think I have about 57 up now, and I hope you go through the list and find more you enjoy. I appreciate your support.

[@snappers_antique_firearms]

@CarterOnConflict I have been watching your channel for several month.i am not someone to comment much, but the effort and quality of your last 2 videos has really blown me away.

[@richardyoder3646]

Another outstanding video doctor

[@CarterOnConflict]

@@richardyoder3646 Richard, thank you as always for watching and commenting. I greatly appreciate it.

[@VNExperience]

The job of a war correspondent is fascinating. Some can be considered heroes, others not so much. Too many stayed at Rex hotel and wrote whatever their questionable sources told them. Frank Snepp's 60 minutes interview comes to mind. This is great stuff. I had been waiting for this one. Thank you.

[@CarterOnConflict]

@@VNExperience I remember your comment from before :-) I’ll keep putting these out, stay tuned! Thanks for watching and commenting.,

[@robertscheinost179]

Thanks, Dr Paul, great stuff! I can't wait for the next video on this subject. I came home and, as always had to watch right away. It's good to hear the War Correspondents viewpoints, especially the younger ones that weren't bespoke to the powers that be. Thanks, Cheers!

[@CarterOnConflict]

@@robertscheinost179 as always, I appreciate you watching and commenting Robert. Thank you for your support.

[@shanghaiyancey]

Dr. Carter, Thank you for another fine video. I really enjoyed the clip with President Johnson's phone call to Horner.

[@CarterOnConflict]

@@shanghaiyancey thanks Yancey - that was a good part of the video. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@andersfant4997]

Great video🙂 - I love the footage from 8 of march 1965, the girls with flowers, not what the Marines expected. - LBJ sure sounded disturbed. A context for his "I shall not seek, and I will not accept" speech a few weeks later? - The Body count thing was utterly depressing. - He mention Peter Arnett who was involved in the questionable (?) reporting about Tailwind.

[@CarterOnConflict]

@@andersfant4997 all good points, I looked at those innocent girls and wondered what fate brought them…I didn’t quite understand the Peter Arnett reference. Thanks as always for watching Anders.

[@andersfant4997]

@CarterOnConflict In 1998 Peter Arnett did a (most likely) totally false story together with Time and CNN, which claimed that Sarin was used against deserting US Soldiers in Laos, during Operation Tailwind. Peter Arnett had to leave CNN because of "flawed journalism". I have seen interviews with old MACV SOG guys and they still hate CNN because of this.

[@fugguhber4699]

At 1:01 - NATIONALIST That was point of the Vietnam unification, and their autonomy, was because of nationalism. Ho Chi Minh himself, I believe was a nationalist. An extremely interesting fact is that the document created by Ho Chi Minh - the Declaration of Independence for Vietnam, was modeled after the U.S. constitution. No communist jargon, or philosophy in the document, it was about independence. That is why the war was such a tragedy; the Vietnamese just wanted their independence. I think that history shows that Ho Chi Minh did not like China, or Russian influence or did he want them as allies. He just wanted independence.

[@CarterOnConflict]

@@fugguhber4699 thank you so much for watching and commenting. Solid points.

[@VNExperience]

They truly were the 5 o'clock follies. The Australian journalist John Pilger asking the US forces spokesperson about Americans killed by mistake is a prime example of the follies. Of course there was no answer provided. To be fair, accidental deaths would be difficult to define and keep track of. Those statistics were not of interest, only enemy body count mattered. I believe that some of that footage of Pilger was shown in the previous episode.

[@CarterOnConflict]

@@VNExperience I did not know that was Pilger!!! Thanks for sharing that. And thank you for watching.

[@garypiont6114]

Please notice the kommies had zero freedom of the press. Great vid.

[@CarterOnConflict]

@@garypiont6114 ha, great point! Used the press but had no tolerance for others to do so.

[@garypiont6114]

@CarterOnConflict thankyou. Most folk forgot the kommies Berlin wall , and other monster tactics. Thanks for sharing your vids.